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Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the queen and king of silent romantic movies, in "Flesh and Devil," 1927.
She reigned in the talkies as well, but he became one of the casualties of sound,
not so much because his voice was thin, but because talking-picture audiences
no longer wanted romantic heroes, preferring tough guys. . . Tags:vintageglamourphotoGretaGarboJohnGilbertAdded: 29th December 2007Views: 1234Rating:Posted By:Teresa

If you bought a ticket to see the first-ever public exhibition of motion pictures, in a Parisian cafe in 1895, this is one of the short films you saw: The Arrival of A Train at La Ciotat. According to a popular urban legend, the audience apparently shrieked in horror when the train got closer, thinking it was coming through the screen at them. Tags:Trainarrival1985Added: 6th January 2008Views: 1162Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

Ah, yes...adorable Anna Kournikova! She was the Russian tennis goddess with the incredible good looks and the incredibly mediocre record. Anna reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1997 at the age of 16--and never did much after that. Despite never having won a professional title in singles, Anna was always among the tour's leading earners in endorsements. (Gee, I wonder why.) She famously dated Russian the two hockey stars pictured here, Pavel Bure and Slava Fedisov. Both experienced declines in their careers after dating Anna. Tags:AnnaKournikovaAdded: 19th January 2008Views: 1684Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first released in 1937. It was the first animated feature film produced by Walt Disney. It was the first full-length animated feature to become widely successful within the English-speaking world, and the first to be filmed in Technicolor. It made its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theater on December 21, 1937, and was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 4, 1938. Walt Disney had to literally fight to get the film produced. Both his brother Roy, and his wife, Lillian, attempted to talk him out of it, and the Hollywood movie industry mockingly referred to the film as 'Disney's Folly' while it was in production. He even had to mortgage his house to help finance the film's production, which eventually ran up a total cost of just over $1.5 million, a whopping sum for a feature film in 1937. It has been well documented that Adolf Hitler watched this film with a room full of children, and was delighted by Disney's adaptation of the German fairy tale. In fact, Hitler offered Disney anything he wanted in exchange for Disney's creation of feature-length animated features in Germany. Though this is the basis for the 'Walt Disney is a Nazi' rumors, Disney's biographer Bob Thomas proved that Disney declined Hitler's invitation, and in fact soon entered production on such anti-German projects as 'Der Fuhrer's Face' and 'Victory Through Air Power'.
Tags:snowwhiteandthesevendwarfswaltdisneyanimatedfilms30Added: 21st January 2008Views: 1404Rating:Posted By:Naomi

This is what NHL goalies used to look like before they were buried under layers of stuffing. Toronto's George Hainsworth is pictured here from about 1934. In the 1928-29 season, Hainsworth, tending goal for the Montreal Canadiens, recorded 22 shutouts in 44 games. Tags:hockeyGeorgeHainsworthgoalieAdded: 14th March 2009Views: 2031Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

i love the way Ann Sheridan was "introduced" to Hollywood . . . .she had been a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. She abandoned college to pursue a career in Hollywood...
Tags:AnnSheridanactressAdded: 28th March 2008Views: 1074Rating:Posted By:Teresa

One of the most famous and powerful images of the Second World War: Joe Rosenthal's dramatic photo of the Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the horrendously bloody Battle of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. (Actually only five of the six are Marines; one is a Navy corpsman.) Three of the men pictured here were killed in action before the terrible battle finally ended more than a month later. Tags:IwoJimaAdded: 3rd February 2008Views: 12826Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

On January 20, 1961 a game show called You're In The Picture, hosted by Jackie Gleason, debuted on CBS. It was a disaster and the TV critics savaged it. The next week, instead of hosting the game show, Gleason appeared on the air to apologize for 'the bomb.' This time the critics loved Gleason's candor and praised him! This clip shows about a minute of Gleason explaining the game show's rules on January 20 and about eight minutes of his apology from January 27. Tags:JackieGleasongameshowAdded: 22nd May 2008Views: 8155Rating:Posted By:Lava1964